Grand National

Grand National

Rules for Grand National. All the games can be download in PDF
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Players: More the Better

How to Play:

There are loads of games that
can be played on the dart board and here is another. I put together this game
after viewing the Grand National horse race at a local pub some time ago.

Many of the pub punters had a
small flutter on the gee gees and a few drinks to go with it. The dart board was
being occupied but only by punters that could play reasonable well. So I thought
with a big gathering that we had it would be a good idea to gain a few more
coverts to a wonderful sport of darts.

This game is based on the house
race the Grand National and over the years it’s developed a bit so here are the
basic rules that I suggest are played by a novice player followed by a revised
version for the more experienced dart thrower.

The Grand National is probably
the Worlds most known house race. The race twice around the circuit jumping
fences. The first home the winner! The trouble is most full!

The basic darts game based on
the Grand National is very easy to play and a varying degree of difficulty can
be added. The basic game for the novice ‘new’ to darts follows this very basic
format.

Novice Game

Each player has 3 darts and the
object is to travel around the dartboard anticlockwise starting at 20, then 5
and then 12 etc. Each segment is known as a hurdle. The novice game you must hit
at least one segment with each turn (3 darts) i.e. start at 20 you must be hit
if not you full at the hurdle and are out of the game. Hitting 20 you move to
the next segment and so on first around and back to 20 wins!

The rules here for the novice
are very simple and after a few drinks you won’t be surprised to see a few full
during the race.

The Dart throwers version

For a competent dart player this
will be a very easy and probably not that inspiring as I would expect each
segment to be hit with a single dart. So here is a slightly harder version.

For the more experience player
the Grand National is played in the following way. Again the object is to travel
anticlockwise around the board twice but this time you start at the large 5
segment (the light segment) of the board you then have to move around the board
hitting each alternative large segment number i.e. 5 then 9 followed by 11 unit
you reach 1. The second time around the board you must hit the small segment of
the 5 and the small segments of each alternative number and then a final Bull /
25 that represents the finishing post. The players here also have three lives
but you can vary this to suit the ability of the players. Here a life is lost if
you miss the segment with a single dart. The winner is the first to travel round
the board twice or the furthest travelled.